Everything that should be digital will be
I’ll be hosting a core conversation today at 5 pm in Hilton 616AB. What is a core conversation? “The informal discussions that take place in the hallways between sessions have traditionally been one of the most productive parts of the SXSW Interactive Festival. In 2008 we formalized this process by adding our Core Conversation program, …
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“Be curious, not furious” was originally posted on April 6, 2012.
I have a friend who is exceedingly nice. She once listened to me tell her all about a person that I considered to have behaved inconsiderately. In response, she asked me why I thought that person had acted in that manner; I told her I didn’t know. She advised me going forward to “be curious, not furious.”
In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, I’m going to start excerpting posts from the past seven years. “Is email social media?” was originally posted on April 27, 2011. Facebook is social. Twitter is social. Discussion and message boards are social. But more people would say that email is not. Gartner makes two important …
I’m writing this note as more of a personal reminder than anything else.
Once every few months, I’ll run into difficulties with my Apple ID password on iTunes. I don’t do much on the site, but when I do I seem to always have to re-authenticate before proceeding. Sometimes this can be incredibly frustrating as I try combination after combination and usually get sent to an apple.com penalty box to recover a lost password.
It’s just that sometimes even after resetting, it still doesn’t work. iTunes just keeps asking for my password, over and over again, even after I’ve changed it and I KNOW FOR SURE that I am typing it correctly.
And sooner or later, I remember why.
Functional integration of ecosystems is emerging as the path towards maximizing value creation within our increasingly digital world. To own an industry leadership position, you need to own the experience. The more your products and services are integrated, the more money you make by offering a superior experience, and the less your competitors will be …
I have a friend who is exceedingly nice. She once listened to me tell her all about a person that I considered to have behaved inconsiderately. In response, she asked me why I thought that person had acted in that manner; I told her I didn’t know. She advised me going forward to “be curious, not furious.”
SXSW Interactive 2012 is going to be a massive event.
Five months ago, SXSWi 2011 saw record attendance of just under 20,000 paid attendees. Seven months from now, SXSWi 2012 is going to be even bigger based on early signals. ALL event spaces are booked. Downtown hotels are already sold out. Over 3,000 panel ideas were submitted to SXSW 2011 (Interactive + Film + Music); over 4,500 were submitted to SXSW Interactive 2012.
Dachis Group has sixteen ideas from our social business expertise that we’d like to share as part of the Festival:
Content-based companies must fight to preserve value and most end up living and dying by a simple premise: aggregate or be aggregated.
Peter Kim Managing Director, North America Dachis Group Peter Kim is a leading thinker on social business, which he discusses on his blog, Being Peter Kim. He has been quoted in the press by media outlets including CNN, CNBC, NPR, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter is currently responsible for building …
I tend to believe that most people participating online do the right thing. We invest time and energy in contributing to a collective understanding. I applaud Todd Defren and ShiftPR for sharing their work on the social media press release. Nielsen Online offers free use of their industrial-strength brand monitoring system through Blogpulse. We celebrate …
